license required for BSD unix?
Jose Angel Vela Avila
josevela at mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx
Thu Apr 11 05:51:24 AEST 1991
jik at athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:
> You need two licenses in order to be able to get the full BSD sources.
>First of all, you need a source license from AT&T. This is *very* expensive
>for commercial sites, and somewhat less expensive (although still not a
>negligable amount of money) for educational institutions.
> Once you've got the AT&T license, you sign a license agreement with Berkeley.
> The reason you need an AT&T license is that the BSD source code has some
>AT&T code still in it. CSRG at Berkeley is trying to remove as much of that
>code as possible for 4.4BSD; I don't know if they're going to succeed in
>removing all of it. If they do, the AT&T license will no longer be necessary,
>and I suspect they'll charge only distribution costs for the sources.
*MOST* important part :
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> Incidentally, as they free parts of BSD of AT&T code, the put it onto
>uunet.uu.net in the /bsd-sources directory (although I don't know how often
>they update it). So there is a lot of code there you can browse through that
>is freely redistributable.
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> In any case, the right people to contact to talk to about questions like
>these are:
> Distribution Coordinator
> Computer Systems Research Group
> Computer Science Division, EECS
> University of California
> Berkeley, California 94720
> (415) 642-7780
> bsd-dist at Berkeley.EDU
>--
>Jonathan Kamens USnail:
>MIT Project Athena 11 Ashford Terrace
>jik at Athena.MIT.EDU Allston, MA 02134
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So... csh sources in wuarchive are not ilegally...
OK.. with this I think everything is OK... ok?
see you ..
Jose A. Vela A.
josevela at mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx
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